OBIT: Wesley C. WILSON, 1976, of interest in Lancaster County, PA

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Farmer, 35, is killed as tractor flips.

A Highland Township farmer was killed late yesterday afternoon when the tractor 
he was driving flipped upside down and crushed him.  Pronounced dead on arrival 
at Coatesville Hospital was Wesley Wilson, 35 of Coatesville RD 3.  State 
police at Avondale said Wilson attempted to drive the tractor up a step bank 
when it lost traction and flipped.  It landed upside down at the bottom of he 
bank with Wilson pinned under it.  Police termed the death accidental and said 
an autopsy will be performed to determine the exact cause of death.

Daily Local News, Saturday, June 18, 1976

Wesley C. Wilson

Wesley C. Wilson, 35, husband of Carolyn D. Wilson, of Coatesville RD 3, died 
as a result of injuries received in a farm accident in Highland Township, 
Thursday.  He was born in Bryn Mawr, son of William C. Wilson, now of 
Lancaster, and the late Mary Ruth Sanworth Wilson.  He had been farm manager of 
Maple Hill Farm in Highland Township for the past three years.  He was a member 
of the Baptist Church of Scranton.

Besides his wife and father, he is survived by one daughter, Holly Wilson, at 
home, five brothers, William and Thomas Wilson, both of Lancaster, and Robert, 
John and Joseph Wilson, all of Scranton; two sisters, Mrs. Jean Renno and Mrs. 
Marlyn Giles. Both of Philadelphia.

Private services will be at the Thomas J. Foulke Funeral Home, West Grove, 
Monday.  Interment will be at Oxford Cemetery.